Maya Angelou Quotes

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

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• The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

  

  Sai Baba
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• I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
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  • Done
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• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
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• Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
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• U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
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  • Well

• I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Direction

• I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
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  • Reflect

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
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  • Me

• There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Lost
  • Conversation
  • Slow

• When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Just

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Movies

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
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• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Drama
  • Books
  • Interests

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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  • Job

• The fact that Marc Cherry's a gay Republican means he should join the Democratic Party.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Party
  • Gay

• Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

  

  Dean Ornish
  • Stress
  • React
  • Do

• The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • People
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  • Lying

• She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • Poetry
  • Frog

• Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Human